Election Shenanigans: a 2020 Mood

It has been a long time since I posted here. Actually, it's been some time since I posted anything at all, anywhere. 2020 has been a year for us all, and it has affected us all in different ways. For my personal life, 2020 saw the passing of my stepfather last week from complications following heart surgery a month prior. He was a good man, and only a month from retirement. That's this year for you, I suppose. Most of the year has seen me working many extra side jobs - this is the biggest reason for my disappearance from the web and much of social media - in case COVID-19 saw me lose my day job. That hasn't happened yet, and I certainly hope it does not. But having the extra money available in case it does is a good thing.

Enough about that, however.

So much has happened since election night began. The readers of Liberty's Torch are no doubt aware that there were huge ballot drops at roughly similar times across a number of battleground states - which took Trump from a >70% chance of victory according to the betting odds, to a seeming-defeat at the hands of Joe Biden.

Leftists and media talking heads assure us that an American election cannot be stolen - many of the same folks who assured us that 2016 was the doing of the Russians. In a year featuring a pandemic, mass political unrest, record turnout, and a shift to mail-in and early voting in numbers never seen previously, we are told nothing untoward happened, and everything was competent and above board.

America's political divisiveness is unprecedented since at least the 1960s, and possibly since the Civil War. But sure, nobody would cheat. Nobody would commit fraud.

Voter turnout reached unseen numbers in several states, and the change to mail-in and early voting due to COVID-19... well that could not result in issues either, right? This despite over 5,000 total missing votes (2,600, then 3000) being dug up in Georgia during an audit already. In a state that Biden was claimed to have won by less than 15,000 votes, this nonetheless must seal the state for Biden, right?

In Florida, we saw the state shift more red than it had in 2016. Yet we are to expect Georgia made a hard turn (+6) to the blue vs 2016? I mean, it's 2020, so anything is possible. But this certainly merits investigation.

Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are even more bizarre. Sure, I did not actually expect Trump to carry Michigan again. What happened in 2016 was a Hail Mary pass unlike anything I've ever seen before. It was crazy. With the energy of Black Lives Matter, and the usual Democrat machine politics, I did not seriously expect a repeat in Michigan. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are another matter entirely. 

In any event, all three saw the sudden leapfrog surge of vote dumps all once.

The explanation is that the urban precincts dumped most of their data at once, and the urban areas heavily favored Biden. But it is rather suspicious that in all cases, it was just barely enough to squeak Biden over the top. The New York Times heavily favored Trump to win Georgia, based on results in North Carolina and Florida, and return rates in Georgia early in the night, then quite suddenly shifted its favorability to Biden. This was explained by the NYT manually adjusting its data to reflect their own opinion as to what was going to happen.

Don't even get me started about the Sharpie debacle in Arizona. This is worse than the hanging chads in Florida. For once it is not my state leading the charge - something I chalk up to governor DeSantis, who fired Brenda Snipes, the Broward county election troll who had, since the Jeb Bush days, made Florida the laughing stock of the country every election cycle. Whether through incompetence or outright fraud, Broward had become famous for this.

DeSantis cleaned that mess up, and went to town on the bureaucracy in my state. When he fired the SFWMD cretins who had failed to clean up the Red Tide mess previously, he even won the attention of some Democrats. In any event, his very Trumpian "you're fired" treatment of the bureaucracy certainly made for a much smoother election in Florida - and, in my opinion, is probably why the state moved the needle another percent or so to the Red. There's your Democrat fraud/incompetence margin right there. Roundabout one percent.

And note that one percent would have given Trump this election. Still think it's clean?

Demographically, Trump made gains in various minorities - winning or coming near to it in many border counties in Texas that were historically very blue. In Florida, there was a Hispanic surge for Trump as well. Trump posted record numbers for a Republican among many minorities. The media say that he lost some ground among white voters, but I'm having a hard time with that one. Perhaps the technocrat crowd, but how many of those would have voted for Trump in 2016? Not many, I'd wager.

In any event, I can't point you to the legal remedies, or the specific evidence of fraud - and, in fact, one thing I am slightly irritated with the political Right about is the fact that they constantly post every new rumor about fraud as if it is the wedge with which we are going to move the courts and the media. That's not particularly helpful. We need solid evidence. Proof. We need something that will grant us the moral high ground - though I don't know precisely what that looks like.

Perhaps the courts can do something. The media never will. But if Trump somehow proves the fraud in court and the election is reversed, I expect there will be civil war. And surely this is on the mind of the judges who could decide such an issue. "Do I really want to rule in a such a way that will do this?"

In this sense, the political Left has a sort of Mafia-like blackmail operation going. You pay them for protection from their insanity... by giving them their candidate, whether or not he won the election legitimately. They told us this from the beginning. "A blowout Biden win means no violence in the streets!"

Yeah, okay.

Whenever gun rights folks march armed to some state building, they are called out as being violent. But they don't kill anybody with their guns. They don't burn down buildings, attack people, etc... They show up, they do their thing, and they leave. The Left on the other hand... well, things go much worse with them.

But only one is a threat to anybody, says the media.

In any event, between incompetence, the general mood of 2020, record turnout, angry political divisiveness that is unprecedented in my lifetime, a pandemic, a surge in mail-in voting, riots in the streets, gun battles in political protests, and a technocrat establishment that hasn't been this angry possibly ever.... Then add on top of all this a series of weird coincidences and irregularities, each that favored Joe Biden over Trump? And people want to tell me this election was great?

Pull the other one.

It's all bullshit.

The media: